Adrenaline junkies go snowboarding on New Zealand glacier

It’s a piste of cake: When a glacier is in mint condition you’ve got to get your teeth into it.

A run gouged in the glacier is used to jump a natural half-pipe (Picture: Caters)

As challenges go it is a bit tougher than a blue run in Méribel but adrenaline junkies Jussi Oksanen and his professional snowboarding pals had good reason to jump into thin air in Methven, New Zealand.

‘This year there wasn’t much snow so we were looking for different, creative things to ride and shoot and that’s how we ended up with some unique shots like these,’ he said.

The pictures were taken by Jeff Curtes, from Wisconsin, US, who said: ‘We pick terrain because it generally looks right and doable. When Jussi and the team saw the ice their eyes lit up with possibilities.’